Bruce Momjian wrote:
Peter Eisentraut wrote:
On tor, 2010-05-27 at 12:59 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
I think we should fix it now.  Quick thought: maybe we could use
FOR
instead of AS: select myfunc(7 for a, 6 for b);
I'm afraid FOR doesn't work either; it'll create a conflict with the
spec-defined SUBSTRING(x FOR y) syntax.
How about

select myfunc(a := 7, b := 6);

One concern I have is that in PL/pgSQL, := and = behave the same, while
in SQL, they would not.  That might cause confusion.


That is a sad wart that we should never have done, IMNSHO (it was before my time or I would have objected ;-) ). But beyond that, = is an operator in SQL and := is never an operator, IIRC.

cheers

andrew

I doubt there will be much confusion.

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